Civilization & Empire - Strategy Game of the Year 2005?

[Slip_Oz]

I mentioned this in the Civ4 forum but thought I'd drop it in here too. Looks awesome and might tide peolpe over until Civ arrives in 2010 These guys at Slitherine seem to be doing a few things right - www.slitherine.co.uk

Slitherine are pleased to announce Legion II, its new 4X strategy game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit & eXterminate). Initial design work on Legion II began early in 2004 and the game is slated for a late 2005 release. Legion II is set in the ancient Mediterranean world and players can choose to take control of any of the major civilizations at the time including the Romans, Carthaginians, Gauls and many more. Players can choose to challenge scenarios with established civilizations, or build their civilization up from nothing on a clean, randomly generated map.

Found new cities & improve existing ones with a choice of hundreds of different buildings.

Explore the vast campaign map, discover continents, meet new tribes and locate rare resources.

Use the random map generator for endless replay value.

Research new technologies, build new structures and recruit new troops.

Send diplomats to negotiate, spy, broker peace deals & provoke wars.

Trade 9 different essential resources.

Allocate workers & keep them happy to prevent riots and revolts.

Withstand droughts, floods and religious unrest along with a wide range of external influences.

Win by total domination or by completing missions.

Play as any side in any scenario.

Recruit great leaders to command your troops.

Build fortresses and besiege enemy strongholds.

Undertake epic construction projects to impress your people and other civilizations, which bestow great benefits.

Historically accurate units, uniforms, cities, nations & leaders.

Auto resolve battles or take control of your men directly (uses the Legion Arena battle engine).


Other games by these guys also look good. Not tried Arena yet, but Gates of Troy and Spartan are great games.

Legion Arena - coming in Jan 2005 I think



Gates of Troy - selling direct from their site (I always like to buy direct to give the developers that exra bit




Spartan




Thought I'd do my bit to spread the word for the upcoming developers

[Provost Harrison]

Looks interesting...

[chequita guevara]

I was going to make a snyde remark about it looking like Rome: Total War. It looks interesting, however, so instead I'll make one about it being in the wrong forum. Should be in Other Games, where we could be getting +1s!

[problem_child]

pah! Once you've gone Paradox, you don't go back. Looks about as deep as Command & Conquor to me now, but then so did Rome: Total War (although that's an excellent game).

[monolith94]

Looks like a cluttered interface.

[Slip_Oz]

I cant stand Paradox games, but I know they are popular with the hardcore

Just because the game looks easy to use doesn't means its simple to play. Some people confuse bad UI design with deep game play! You'll probably find more stats in the games above than in EU, but they are presented in a graphical way which makes them easy to digest. Same goes for Civ.

Most important - I want a game & not a stats heavy historical simulation! Anyway - each to their own.

[Dinner]

Thread will be moved to other games in 3...2...

[Mercator]

... Not before doing the DL

[problem_child]

Originally posted by Slip_Oz
I cant stand Paradox games, but I know they are popular with the hardcore

Just because the game looks easy to use doesn't means its simple to play. Some people confuse bad UI design with deep game play! You'll probably find more stats in the games above than in EU, but they are presented in a graphical way which makes them easy to digest. Same goes for Civ.

Most important - I want a game & not a stats heavy historical simulation! Anyway - each to their own.

EUII, Vicky and HoI are not history recreators, that's the fun of em, seeing Europe turned into a German hegemony by 1890 for instance, or playing as the UK and giving South Africa to a satalitted Zulu state, or seeing if you can lead Mexico to displace the USA from North American power! (tough one that).

There are lot's of stats in Vicky because it's an incredibly deep Grand-Economy game, with loverly juicy conflicting-forces all over the place, and patterns within patterns and... I stop now, this not advert.

Vicky does have the odd UI nitpick but... well. Besides, I once heard it said "We like someone for their strenghs, but we love them for their weaknesses".

So there, I'm off to marry Vicky and there's nothing you can do to stop me!

[Slip_Oz]

My bad - didn't see the other games forum so thought this was the place to go. If i could move it I would. Many apologies!

[Harry Tuttle]

It does look like an improvement over Legion I. The orginal was neat to play, but overall it was to restrictive in what you could do. Thsi new game seems to me to be a big stepup.

[Dis]

looks like a RTS

[Slip_Oz]

It depends what you mean. Arena is looking like an RTS, but the others are definitely not. Play the demo of Spartan and see - you dont have to fight battles and if you do you can't control the squads, just set all their orders in advance and then sit back and pray

This is the problem though - most people are dismissing it without even taking a proper look! I can promise its well worth your time!

Demo is here - http://www.slitherine.co.uk/spartan/downloads.htm

[Barinthus]

Mmm looks promising. Will be keeping an eye out for this.

[Dis]

I won't dismiss it. I'll wait until it comes out. If it is any good, I'm sure someone will post here

the Apolyton Other games section is the place I go to hear about new games